Handle for mucilage-brushes



(No Model.)

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HANDLE FOR MUGILAGE BRUSHES.

No. 376,897. Patented Jan. 10, 1888.

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CHARLES ROWLAND, OFQUINCY, ILLINOIS.

HANDLE FOR MUCILAGE-BRUSHES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 376,397, dated January10, 1888.

I Application filed November 2, 1887. Serial No. 254.102. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES ROWLA D, a citizen ofthe United States,residing at Quincy, in the county of Adams and State of Illinois, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Handles for MucilageBrushes, ofwhich the following is a. specification.

My invention relates to handles for muci- .lage-brushes or such brushesas are usually 5 tached.

supplied with bottles or stands for containing mucilage and similarliquids or semi-liquids, the object being to provide the brush-handlewith a spherical stopper adjustable along said handle, so as to supportthe brush at any desired height and closely embracing the handle in suchaway as to remain in the position to which it may be adjusted.

The invention consists in a spherical stopper, preferably elastic,attached to a brush handle and longitudinally adjustable thereon, ashereinafter more fully set forth. 7

Figure l representsmy improved mucilage brush supported in a mucilagebottle or stand. Fig. 2 shows a bottle or stand in sectional elevationwith the brush supported therein. Fig. 3 is a view of'the bottle withthe brush supported horizontally across the bottle-mouth. Fig. 4 is aview of the brush with its spheri cal stopper or ball bea'ring insection.

Referring'to the drawings, the numerall designates a bottle or stand,which may be of any suitable or we'll-known form, adapted to holdmucilage, paste, or other liquid. or semiliquid usually applied with abrush.

The numeral 2 designates a brush having a handle, 3, of any suitablematerial, but preferably metal, in the form of a cylinder of nearlyuniform diameter, such as commonly employed in mucilage-brushes.

Heretofore mucilage-bottles, after the cork is withdrawn, have beenprovided with metal covers loosely fitted onto the brush-handle. Suchcovers are awkward and in the way while using the brushes to which theyare atthe brush-handles so loosely that they are liable to becomeaccidentally detached and lost, and when the brush is placed in thebottle the loosely-attached metal cover allows the brush sired depth inthe contents of the bottle. spherical stopper 4 is of such diameter asto They are also generally attached to v fering with a neat use of thebrush when re-- moved. On the other hand, if the handle is rigidlysecured to the said metallic cover there is no convenient means ofadjusting the brush to the diminishing depth of mucilage in the bottle.These difficulties are obviated by my invention, which embraces aspherical elastic stopper, 4, through which the brush-handle is passed.This stopper 4 is preferably made of rubber or similar elastic materialcapable of closely embracing the brush-handle and remaining thereon atany point to-which it may be adjusted, the ball or stopper 4 beingmovable longitudinally on the handle 3, so as to enable the brush to beimmersed at any de- The rest in or over the mouth of the bottle withoutdropping into or becoming wedged therein. By pushing the stopper 4 alongthe handle in either direction it can be adjusted so as to support thebrush at anydesired height, according to the depth of liquid in thebottle, and so prevent the lower end of the handle from becoming soiledor sticky. The spherical form of the stopper or ball-bearing 4 alsoenables the brush to be supported in the bottle equally well either in avertical or inclined position, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2;andwhen the brush is removed from the bottle it can be temporarilysupported on the bottle-mouth in a horizontal position, as shown in Fig.3, without liability of falling. The spherical stopper 4 may be solid,as shown in Fig. 2, or hollow, as shown in Fig. 4, and, thoughpreferably composed of rubber, it may be made of any suitable material.

What I claim as my invention is 1. The combination, with a brush-handle,of a spherical stopper adjustable longitudinally on said handle,substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a bottle or stand for mucilage and otherliquids, of a brush having a handle provided with a spherical stopperlongitudinally adjustable on said handle and adapted to support thebrush at In testimony whereof I affix my signaturein any height in thebottle or horizontally across presence of two witnesses. thebottle-mouth, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with a bottle or stand 5 for mucilage or otherliquids, of a brush having a handle provided with an elasticspheriitnesses: cal stopper longitudinally adjustable on the GEORGE W.REA, brush-handle, substantially as described. J. A. RUTHERFORD.

CHARLES ROWLAND.

